Now, don’t misunderstand me… I’m not saying India’s terrible performance is okay. It is NOT. Indian fans deserve to be pissed. Recent performance is terrible. Several innings defeat. No one firing. Giving up so easily. Really bad. But I’m highlighting the fact that the current years will cause joy and heart break for fans depending on where their teams are playing (Home games will bring JOY and Away games will BREAK THEIR HEARTS). Cricket fans, let us prepare ourselves for this. Our team’s Test cricket performance will more or less depend on where they’re playing (checkout ICC’s Future Tours Program). Test cricket ranking won’t mean much! Wasim Akram feels the same way.

Here are some charts that explain my point of view…

1) See how India played more tests at home between 2008 and 2010. In 2011/12, they’ve mostly AWAY games. Similarly, in 2011 England played mostly at HOME

2) Notice how we see more RED (losses) than GREEN (wins) in the charts below, India and England’s performance in AWAY games

3) Notice how we see more GREEN (wins) than RED (losses) in the charts below, India and England’s performance in HOME games